Simmoniteś Juvenile grammar of the English language: an abridgment of the Practical self-teaching grammarSimpkin, Marshall and Company, 1843 - 108 pages |
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action or event adjective adverb antecedent apostrophe auxiliaries common noun comparative compound conjunction consonant couldst Decline DEFECTIVE VERBS degree of comparison denote dipthong following sentences FUTURE PERFECT FUTURE PERFECT TENSE FUTURE TENSE gender govern nouns Grammar hadst IMPERATIVE MOOD indicative mood infinitive mood interjection irregular verb John kind LESSON loved lovest masculine Name notice noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person objective pronouns omitted PARSING past participle past tense person or thing person plural person singular personal pronouns placed PLUR plural nominative possessive potential mood preposition PRESENT TENSE proper nouns PUPIL PUPIL.-What relative pronoun Repeat RULE second person sense shalt or wilt signifies SING singular and plural singular number speech subjunctive mood superlative suppositional tense SYNTAX Tell TENSE represents third person Thou art Thou hast Thou shalt tive transitive verbs verb and pronoun verb of motion VIOLATIONS.-1 vowel write
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Page 5 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English Language with propriety.
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